The Rise of Hannibal
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Gauls and the Battle of Carthage
There are quite interesting parallels with alexander's campaigns, but also those of philip of macedon. They often take their army far beyond anywhere that anyone from helenistic culture has been before and confront peoples with whom they have no prior disagreement or dispute. And it's simply a question of how do you react? If you submit, then fine, you can become an ally. But more often than not, even though we with hindsight know this is an elite army led a hannibal or an alexander, and it's really not a good idea to argue with them. The local tribes ather on the far bank of the river rome. It's a broad
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